Video cameras, computers and high-tech...

RECYCLING TRAFFIC.

November 11, 1987

BEIJING — RECYCLING TRAFFIC. Video cameras, computers and high-tech traffic lights have swung into action here to bring order to the chaos of horse-drawn carts, growing numbers of cars and trucks -- and more than 6 million bicycles. ''This is one of the happiest events in the capital,'' Deputy Mayor Zhang Bofa said Tuesday at the opening ceremony for China's first experimental computer- controlled traffic system. Five years ago, the bicycle reigned supreme. Now 6.5 million bicycles compete with about 400,000 motor vehicles.